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Registering historic events in the registers of common land or of town or village greens.
How to register historic rights of common and make changes to existing rights during the transitional period.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a historic event.
How to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.
How to access the historical censuses from 1841 to 1921.
Record yourself as the person who is now entitled to use a right of common.
Create a new right of common and record it in the register of common land.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a new event.
Ofsted has today published a subject report looking at how history is being taught in England’s schools.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
The heritage schools programme helps teachers make effective use of local heritage resources and connects heritage providers with schools.
Apply to correct mistakes in the registers of common land or of town or village greens
The Coronation Roll is the official record of the Monarch’s accession and crowning.
A right of common in gross (a deed) can be attached to a property so that the owner of the property can use the right of common.
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